Isadora Duncan Dance Technique Class with Word Dance Theater (Ages 5-7)

This winter and spring, Word Dance Theater will offer a full session of in person classes so long as it is safe to do so. In person classes will be physically distanced and will adhere to mask guidelines while maintaining the integrity of the Duncan technique and philosophy. Classes will run on Tuesdays for 16 weeks, from January 18 through May 10 (no class on March 15).

Youth classes study the technique and philosophy of Isadora Duncan, the Mother of Modern Dance, through a pedagogy developed by our Duncan colleague and lineage holder Dicki Johnson Macy of the Boston Children’s Foundation. Through improvisation and original repertoire, students study how the motions of water, wind, and trees inspire the natural movements of the human body while they learn to honor the dance within themselves and each other. This imaginative work supports the basic locomotor skills of skipping, leaping, and waltzing, and fosters individual and collective grace, honor, heroism, pride and freedom.